Looks good Pete. Let us know when you start with a medium poly tree 3D libary.

First I think the sky works with the lighting. The original photo has a lone cloud that look odd so the new is better and a bit warmer. About the cropping of the image it looks like it need more at the bottom. With the perspektive of the house it just doesnt look right the way it is. The trees look very 3d to me. I dont know if they are but I think that if you should add trees you should use photographic trees that looks more real. Finally, what is this? Is it the customers factory? And why have trees in the image if they are not there in reality? A final thought, I think the image could need some kind of focuspoint and live item. Maybe a bird flying by or people having lunchbreak or something...

Cool, looking forward to it! @aidus said: PS. Sorry about bad english Many natives have worse

Well DUH! (Is it obvious I haven't worked with section planes much? :`) Guess I should have posted this in the Newbie Forum...can you move it Gai? Oh yeah: thank you for the quick response, I'll use this on a new rendering idea before the day's out!

We've hit the street...thanks again for all your encouragements. Hoping many of you will respond and help out here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=17149

Thanks Tom! I needed that today!

Sorry took me so long...but at least I spared you a bunch of "would've been censored" ranting and raving. I was sure the idea was hogwash indeed, but wanted to hear it confirmed as I was starting to hear otherwise. Still having all kinds of stupid transient problems with this new (been over a year now) machine. This time they changed out the graphics card (FX 1700 w/ 512mb) to not much avail...now all that's left is the motherboard? So, got this thing back late Friday...besides the vid card, supposed to have had both HD's clean wiped, windows reloaded, and all tweaked up with latest drivers (and all the crap cleaned out) so I didn't have to do it...with assurances it was doing great (I took SU down to the shop this time and indeed it was snapping 3D like a champ) and had a pcpitstop score of 4810 w/ 3d graphics in the 0 %-tile (whatever that means). Since then (besides deleting and defraging the D-drive they didn't touch) I've had to install IE7 (it had IE6 and an IE7 Beta toolkit...?), WMPlayer 11 (it had ver9...this load from my harddrive took over 20min?), and uninstall several sophomoric web-based office and graphics programs I'd never seen before (all of them phoning home from startup and elsewhere deep in the "you can't find me" bowels of XP). Since this didn't really fix it, I started in shutting down or disabling as many of the update and other comm links the programs I wanted to keep had open...now I was better. After finally taking the chance to uninstall Nero (thank god xp can at least use the Asus to read a cd) I am now in pretty good shape. I tried getting rid of Realtek, because I thought maybe one of it's drivers was in conflict with something of Nvidia's causing the remaining sound issues (since the "let's just see" ATI swap card didn't have the sound issues), but xp couldn't take over for the intel motherboard's onboard sound...? BTW: no security software - just xp's firewall. So now here is where I stand: sometimes I get choppy sound playing a clip in WMP, sometimes on line, and sometimes just with the rebooting wave; IE is very slow to load (BIG processor user) and stays slow until I shut it down and then start again...this is better if I wait 10-15 min after turning on the computer before trying anything (SU does this too); I'm getting a lot of "done, but with errors" notes at the bottom left of IE...status bar? But...sometimes MSNBC loads so fast I can't believe it. SU almost always responds wonderfully without wireframing on orbit, beachball inferencing, or hopscotch scrolling in or out 8~)) Exports are faster too and PSP doesn't wait for fancy filters to work near as long. So I guess if I have to wait for this machine to warn-up it's worth it...but I'd rather not: This wait period doesn't show any processor activity in task manager, but I'd swear the machine is doing something else...at least that's how it acts (or bathroom break?). I have the processes running down to as low as I've seen:[image: zkqs_tn_taskmanager.jpg] So when I get up some guts again I'm gonna have a go at the windows processes...any help or suggestions are begged for and will be fawned over, thank you very, very, much!

Brodie, your "another thought" is exactly how I do it whenever I'm working with a contoured site model: it works slick if you can get all the draped lines to cut the planes (why I normally just do it the old way before sandbox)...just some hidding of the "stretch-marks" created in the alt-move process.

Thanks, Boo, but when I posted the same size stuff last week this didn't happen (and my post this AM is the only time I've seen it anywhere so far ?~) Oh well, got it now.

great work as usual, tom. i agree with eric: let those flags hang, man...

Darren, thank you...and as Gai (your check's in the mail, BTW :`) said, I think I've posted here all the trees in this image: search me and tree or trees. If there's one you can't find I'd be happy to share, just let me know.

First: Thank you, thank you! High praise, indeed, from the likes of you guys! So glad to hear hours of study and gigs of practice pleases more just than me. Ross, the greyscale layer tip will be used alot now, thank you (I remember reading something similar in one of Mateo's tuts, but promptly forgot about it: which happens a lot lately...more each year :`) I haven't had time to play with it much, but here's a start...I put another "hot" color layer under the greyscale, then erased out the grey layer to intensify, and erased out the top transparent color layer to diminish. The result (I think...?) is a control of the atmospheric perspective, without dulling the vibrancy, like I've never had before: [image: bk5x_tn_KBI-5-wc3g-mix.jpg] [image: dkhR_tn_KBI-5-wc2g-mix.jpg] [image: tfxv_tn_palace1.jpg] [image: jL8c_tn_palace1g-mix.jpg]

there is indeed some good ones, although the dating ones can be a bit disconcerting at times

Amazing stuff there!

Well, that's my "surely not"...don't want to think such is intentional :~(

@kwistenbiebel said: They might as well go fully open source with Sketchup, so really funky coding stuff can happen. Amen to that! I was really hoping Google would step up to the plate with this release and show that they had some vision for the software, but version 7, although improved, is not a step towards something better. Google is content with having sketchup be purely a surface modeler with poor integration and inefficient load handling. I was hoping to see an indication with this release, that sketchup would move more towards a quad modeler or at least start to offer things like direct vertex manipulation and subdivision. There are so many great ruby scripts and ideas that could've been taken on by Google's development team and integrated into the software as standard tools, but in the end, there were no new tools whatsoever. Except for automatic line intersecting, which I'd imagine wouldn't take more than a few lines of code to add. So, in the end, the only real solution to the inefficiency dilemma is to have solid third party application that can be strong in the areas that Sketchup is weak. I wouldn't count on Google to provide this solution.

Dave letterman mentioned that his regular bit 'Great moments in presidential speeches' will be ending shortly with the end of the Bush administration. he aknowledges that this is a huge blow to his show as this has been a staple of his success for the last so many years. [flash=425,344:2lkt2dhi]http://www.youtube.com/v/NqJiCDElWmo[/flash:2lkt2dhi]

thanks!!

i might try that

Redneck Gingerbread House: [image: XxE9_rngingerbread.jpg]